People ex rel. Broadmoor Land & Improvement Co. v. District Court

This is an original proceeding for writ of mandamus brought by petitioners for the purpose of compelling the district court of Pueblo county and Hon. John H.-Voorhees, one of the judges thereof, to enter a specific decree in a cause pending therein, entitled “ The Broadmoor D. & L. S. Co. et al., Plaintiffs, v. The Brookside W. & I. Co. et al., Defendants.” That action was brought by plaintiffs to restrain the defendants from diverting through a pipe line of the latter, the water of Cheyenne creek, their claim being that their rights to the waters of that stream were superior to those of…